DIE ANGSTMACHER
FLAP AND FEAR A little girl is running through a flock of pigeons in a park. They all fly off in a panic, yet she poses no real threat. Later, they always come back. Flap and Fear follows two London city pigeons as they seek refuge from a world of frights in Drachengasse's Bar&Co. Flap and Fear is about our addiction to fear and how we return to it, over and over again. In fact - perhaps we are actually complicit with the scaremongers? The play will be performed in English. THEATRE GROUP IMPLODING FICTIONS TEXT: DARREN LERIGO CONCEPT, DIRECTION: ØYSTEIN ULSBERG BRAGER, PHILIP THORNE CAST: ROWENA HUTSON, LAUREN MCCULLUM SOUND DESIGN: LAURENCE SHORT PHOTO BY: KAJA KOZLOWSKA TEAM ØYSTEIN ULSBERG BRAGER Øystein is joint artistic director of Imploding Fictions (www.implodingfictions.com) and a freelance theatre director. In Norway he runs the Imploding Fictions project Oslo International Theatre. Directing credits include Hamletmachine (winner of Premio Internazionale Claudio Gora, Rome 2007), and Norway.Today (Southwark Playhouse, Young Angels Theatremakers Award 2007/2008). Øystein is an associate artist of the London-based theatre company Company of Angels. PHILIP THORNE Philip is a freelance theatre director and translator. Productions with Imploding Fictions include an international tour of Hamletmachine (Egypt, France, the Netherlands, Italy, UK) and Norway. Today (Cambridge and London). Translations from German into English include: Hamlet is Dead, Black Beast and Faust is Hungry for the Royal Court and Nightblind for Company of Angels. Work as an assistant director includes: Judgement Day Almeida Theatre, The Ugly One Royal Court and the hour we knew nothing of each other for the National Theatre. DARREN LERIGO Darren Lerigo is a young British writer currently living in Madrid. He has previously run several online writing projects and published the satirical e-newspaper This Is Your Government Speaking. Darren is winner of the Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke's ‘Write to Stage’ competition for his play Jester You Shall Sunset. He is currently dreaming of writing a show based on European folk tales, told by a woman playing a harp and backed by a trio of violinists in cages, a banjo playing ape dressed as a pirate and an accordion player with enormously long legs. ROWENA HUTSON - JESSE Rowena graduated with a First Class Honours degree in European Theatre Arts from Rose Bruford College in 2008. She was awarded the Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust Bursary for promising young actors completing their final year of study for 2007/2008. Rowena is a member of the theatre collective Sheer Lunacy, the permanent ensemble of Underground Cinema, and is the Acting Mentor for Rose Theatrical of London Ltd. She has toured Germany and France with White Horse Theatre Company and has performed in the United Kingdom, Holland and Australia. Credits include: Katrina Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, directed by Jaime McCarney; Ebbi in Unwrapped, directed by Luna Gawler; Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Claire Fisher, and The Lady In Red in Manilla for Sheer Lunacy. LAUREN MCCULLUM - LILY Lauren trained for three years at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in London, receiving a first class BA honours degree in European Theatre Arts in 2009. Lauren has also studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Drama and part-time classes at The Circus Space. For the past two and a half years, Lauren has been working with theatre collective, The Fiasco Division. Lauren has been performing for nine years in various festivals and venues; including the Estonian Academy, Norway’s Operahuset Nordfjord, Reykjavik’s ArtFart and in her home country in London’s National Theatre and Southwark Playhouse, Bournemouth’s Kube Art Gallery and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Past credits include The Queen in Luigi Pirandello’s Henry V, directed by Andrea Cussumano; Anne-Marie Stretter in India Song, directed by Monique Hunt; Iphigenia in Iphigenia in Taurus, directed by Alexia Kokkali; Natella Abashwilli in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Ingo Normet and numerous devised productions at Rose Bruford and with The Fiasco Division.
